JOANNA
WICHERKIEWICZ
IN SEARCH OF DAILY
BREAD
the feeling got
rusty on emigration
tears and sweat
are not good for love
tired longing
does not run the
paths of fibre as often
decibels of
conversations fell
time keeps on
stretching and folding
spitefully
he got thinner
crumbs of the past
no-one can feed on
them
a dream about
happiness
grew bigger
in a bank account
she will wait
***
where
when the sea must
be Mediterranean
lipstick from
Chanel or Dior
botox shall erase
the history
where
when the truth is
asleep
manipulation
segregation
the press will
write about this story
where
to god who
for good awards
for bad punishes
or
where
***
i have a good name
unchangeably
a present for the
occasion of my birth
it wasn’t
necessary
to build or burn
bridges
***
i don’t understand
the killing
even for the price
of hope
and dying i don’t
understand
in the name of
vague freedoms
how much there is
to understand
in youthful
boldness
and how much of
memory of child’s play
in hide and seek
in piggy in the
middle
war
real and
comprehendible
is the cold of
graves
in tears of those
close
washed
history hurts
and
overwhelms
***
I often pass a
house
beautiful and
silent
it is looking at
me with empty eyes of windows
just outside there
is a hearth
longing for the
joy of fire
a swing moved by
the wind
lonely
a bike resting on
the shoulder of the house
ready for its
first trip
for years
sometimes i think
it imprisons
them in that huge
space
of marble and
clinker
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Translator: Elżbieta Wysakowska - walters
JOANNA WICHERKIEWICZ
JOANNA
WICHERKIEWICZ was born in 1971 in Mlawa. She spent her childhood in Zuromin. Next,
she moved to Olsztyn. Presently, she lives in a picturesque town – Uniejow. A
place associated with thermal waters. She is a teacher. Poetry came to her at
her birth. She moved from simple rhymes to white poems. Creation is a way for
her to wash herself of the dirt of this world, an escape and an attempt to fix
the world. Her poems were published in Angora, Dziennik Polski, Tygodnik
Cechanowski, Uniejowskie Strony, W Uniejowie. She also published in such
magazines as Najlepsze z życia, she had her
poems published on poetry web portals such as PoeciPolscy.pl, nowemysli.pl,
szuflada.pl. Her poems can also be found in collections: Przed Oczami by Monika
Sawicka and Mosty Słów. She published her own book of poems entitled Okruchy
Codzienności. Her new book
of poems is being prepared for publication.
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